Hi,

After seeing the "Hacking garage door opener" thread I thought I'd start my own to ask about garage door openers for my specific needs.

We are soon getting power installed into our standalone single garage. And one of the first things we will want in there is a garage door opener.

Ours is a tilter door, but I see most doors openers seem to specify they are for either sectional or roller doors. Obviously a roller door option can't work for us, but do sectional door openers work with tilter doors - or do you need an opener specifically designed for tilter doors?

Ideally something that already had wifi for monitoring and remote open/close functionality would be great, but I suspect in NZ that isn't going to come "out of the box". So I suspect that will be a project for later.

Since it is a standalone garage with no internal access, I would like to be able to open it from the outside without needing the remote (which will be in my car). I see Merlin doors have programmable wireless keypads for this type of entry, so something like that mounted to the outside of the garage would be suitable.

What would peoples recommendations be based on my criteria:

1. Works with tilter door.

2. Can open and close the garage from outside without the remote (keypad entry or similar).

3. Will not prevent me from adding some sort of wifi monitoring and control later.

Thanks